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A Secret Trial before a Kangaroo Tribunal Why is the Sri Lankan government avoiding the countryÂ’s courts? (February 10, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The case against Sarath Fonseka, the common candid...

E01/02/2010 CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ATTACKS ON PEACEFUL PROTEST “…all parties that have hitherto shared in government must share in some measure the responsibility for these despicable tende...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from the Sri Lanka Guardi...

WUNRN – http://www.wunrn.com http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/turkish-girl-buried-alive-in-honour-killing/story-e6frev00-1225827078103 A 16-year-old girl was buried alive by relative...

The Year 2009: Ten Steps Forward for Human Rights 1. Action against industrial pollution in Mab Da Phut Mab Da Phut is an industrial estate where many people have suffered detrimental health effects f...

Barrister Amjad Malik, Chairman (APL) an Association of Pakistani origin Solicitors, Barristers, Judges and ex pat members has taken a serious note of recent conviction of Dr. Afia Siddiqui of 3 Febru...

Amnesty International USA Press Release Amnesty International is calling on the Sri Lankan government to permanently release civilians who have been illegally detained in camps since the end of the ci...

Sri Lanka Human Rights Watch Deconstitutionalising, deinstitutionalising and the denial of legal remedies as a modern technique of terror (February 02, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The deprivation of ...

The year 2009 was one of the worst for Ahmadis (a religious minority community) in Pakistan. Eleven Ahmadis were murdered for their faith. Since the promulgation of the anti-Ahmadiyya law in 1984, the...

Subject: [SL HR Advocacy] HRW: End Indefinite To: slhradvocacy@googlegroups.com For Immediate Release Incommunicado ‘Rehabilitation’ Raises Fears of Torture and Enforced Disappearances (Ne...

Dear Friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-FST-008-20...

Sri Lanka Human Rights Watch (January 30, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Pregeeth Ekenaliyagoda, a senior journalist, political analyst and visual designer, attached to Lanka E-News, was abducted on the...

“My brother was picked up by the state intelligence agencies when he was returning home from office,¡¨ recalled Hani Baloch, the sister of a missing Baloch person, as she broke into tears whil...

Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontières From: RSF ASIA <asie@rsf.org> Date: 2010/1/25 25 January 2010 In English: http://www.rsf.org/Political-reporter-and-cartoonist.html En franÃ...

GENEVA/ SINGAPORE (January 27, 2010) – In support of efforts to curb legal abuse across Asia, International Bridges to Justice (IBJ) this week launches its second JusticeMakers Fellowship Compet...

Earl Butz, US Secretary, Agriculture in 1974 said “If food can be used as a weapon  we shall be happy to use it” Bt Brinjal is part of this strategy We thank Shri Ramesh, Minister-in-Charge of Envi...

Dear Friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from IPS. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from IPS forwarded by the Asian Human Rights...

(New York, January 21, 2010) — Pakistan’s military actively undermined the civilian government’s human rights agenda in 2009, Human Rights Watch said today in its new World Report 2...

Open Letter to Mr. Abhisit Vejjajiva, Prime Minister of Thailand Geneva-Paris, January 19, 2010 Re: Lack of effective investigation into the assault against human  Dear Prime Minister, The Observator...

The ICJ is pleased to release a new report, “Post-: Rule of Law, the Criminal Justice System and Commissions of Inquiry,” authored by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena. The full 175 page report is...